Glossary published: 2nd September 2025

  1. Cerebrum: The principal and the most anterior part of the brain in vertebrates containing cerebral cortex as well as hippocampus, basal ganglia and olfactory bulb; located in the front area of the skull and consisting of two hemispheres left and right separated by a fissure. With the help of cerebellum, the cerebrum controls all voluntary actions in the human body.
    Also, the largest part of the brain while cerebral cortex is the outer layer of the cerebrum.
    The cerebral cortex plays a key role in attention, perception, awareness, thought, memory, language and consciousness.
  2. Cerebrum
    Cerebrum
    cerebral cortex
    Cerebral Cortex
  3. Cortical: Relating to the outer layer of cerebral cortex
  4. Mesolithic: Relating to the middle part of the Stone Age between Paleolithic and Neolithic. From Greek Meso - middle, lithos - stone
  5. Neolithic: New stone age. from Greek neo - new & lithos - stone.
  6. Paleolithic: Old stone age. From Greek palaiós - old & líthos stone
  7. Psychoacoustics: A branch of psychophysics involving the scientific study of the perception of sound by the human auditory system. It is an interdisciplinary field including psychology, acoustics, electronics engineering, biology, physics, physiology, and computer science.
  8. Pareidolia: It is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus usually visual so that one detects an object, pattern or meaning when there is none.